Improvement in machines for making drop-candy



J. COMBET.

MACHINES FOR MAKING DROP CANDY.

Patented Dec. 19, 1876.

THE GRAPHIC CO.N.\'.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIon.

To all whom it may concern ening the screws the bar may be readily rebar, made removable, so as to adapt the'maper bosses f, elevate the said bar. The lowerallel across the bar. To the sides of the pan immediately flows in streams therefrom JOSEPH OOMBET, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR MAKING DROP-CANDY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,498, dated December 19, 1876 application filed October 30, 1876.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH OoMBE'r, of moved. To the plate B, or sides of the pan Paris, France, have invented a new and use- A, there are secured bearings 01 for a rotary ful Improvement in Apparatus for Making shaft, E, to each end of which shaft is con- Drop-Oandy; and I do hereby declare the fol: nected a pinion, 6, without which meshes a lowing to be a clear and-exact description of large toothed wheel, F, whose axial shaft the nature thereof, sufficient to enable others is connected to the pan Anear the bar 0, the skilled in the art to which my invention apdiameters of the wheels F being such that the pertains to fully understand, make, and use pan A is elevated and supported thereby. In the same, reference being had to the accomfront of the plate B there is mounted a rising panying drawings, making part of this speciand lowering horizontally-arranged bar, Gr, fication, in which each end thereof, preferably, being formed Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus with two bosses, f, which slide on pins secured embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front to the plate B, and thereby receive uniform View thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section in motions. From the said bar G there depend line w m, Fig. 2. two or more springs, H, whose lower ends are Similar letters of reference indicate correfitted to and pressing against a bar, J, which sponding parts in the several figures. I term the cut-off, and it is located against the My invention consists of gear-wheels, on bar 0, and receives rising and lowering mowhich is mounted aconfectioners pan, so that tions from the bar G and springs H. In orthe pan will be run on said wheels, and the der to impart the rising motion to the bar G dropping mechanism will be simultaneously the shaft E carries tappets or cams K, which, operated. It also consists of the droppingbearing against the projecting sides of the upchine to the manufacture of candy-drops of ing motion of the bar is occasioned by the acvarious sizes It further consists in suspendtion of a spring, g, which, bearing against the ing the cut-off bar from springs which hold bar in order to depress it, is secured to an auxsaid bar properly against the dropping-bar. iliary handle, L, projecting horizontally for- It also consists of a pan having an axial moward from the front plate B. tion, and formed with a curved bottom, the The operation is as follows: The pan A will curvatures terminating at the dropping-point, be filled with the proper compound, and, in so that every particle of the confectioners order to receive the same to its greatest cacompound will flow from the pan. pacity, the pan shoul be held in nearly a hor- Referring to the drawings, A represents a izontal position, as indicated by the dotted pan for the receptionof confectioners comlines, Fig. 1. The operator then grasps the pounds to be formed into drop-candy, said pan projecting handle L, and draws forward the consisting of a curved bottom, a, and sides I) apparatus, and, simultaneously therewith, ro b, secured thereto. To the upper part of the tates the crank-handle M of the shaft E, the side pieces I), at what may be termed the front apparatus running on the wheels F, which of the apparatus, there is secured a plate, B, may be said to be the running-gear. The pinand below said plate is fitted a removablyions 6 receive rotation from the wheels F, and connected bar, 0, said plate and bar constitut cause rotation of the tappets or cams K, ing what may be termed the front side of the whereby the arm G will be raised, thus raising pan A, the base of the bar 0 being formed the cut-off bar J, and uncovering the openings with a series of openings, O extending par- 0 of the bar 0. The compound in the pan A AI secure L-shaped pieces b, and behind the through the openings 0, but as soon as the front limbs thereof the bar (J will be applied. tappets K clear the bar G the bar J is quickly Screws D are passed through the pieces b, depressed, owing to the spring g, and, closing and, bearing against the bar 0, serve to hold the openings 0, it cuts through the streams the latter in place. It is evident that by loosof the compound, and liberates so much thereof-as is outside of'the pan, thus forming drops which, fallin g on the table or bed over which the machine is run, are flattened thereby, the

unless further treatment thereof is required. The descent of the bar J also. prevents further flow of the compound from the pan, but the apparatus being continuously manipulated the said bar J again ascends and descends, so that the dropping operation is repeated.

The bar 0 is removably fitted in place, so that bars with openings of diflerent dimensions may be applied, whereby drops of various sizes may be formed. As the compound in the pan A is being expended the back end of the pan should be gradually elevated, so that the compound will flow from the bottom a of the pan to the openings 0' of the bar 0, and the smallest particle thereof will be di- 1 rected from the pan, and subjected to the dropping operation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

formation of the candy-drops being completed,

1. In a drop-candyapparatus, the confectioners pan A, in combination with gear-wheels F whereby the apparatuswill be run on, ands multaneously operated 'by, said wheels, substantially asiand for the purpose set forthg 1 2. ThepanA andfcut-oif bar J in combinawith the bar O,form*ed"with openings 0, and made removablqsubstantially as. and forthe" purpose set forth,

set forth. I

y "JOSEPH GOMBET.

Witnesses J OHN A. WmnERsHnIM, OH. NICHOLAS. 

